Band 6 - Ward Sister and Charge Nurse - Portsmouth

Overview

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust are recruiting for a passionate Band 6 Ward Sister / Charge Nurse to join their highly skilled team.

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is the largest non-teaching hospital trust in England. With strong local ties and serving around 675,000 residents in Portsmouth and South East Hampshire, they pride themselves on providing comprehensive acute and specialist services.

Job Summary

1. In the absence of the senior ward sister lead and co-ordinate the nursing team, taking responsibility for the management and organisation of the clinical area.
2. Through effective leadership ensure the clinical team deliver a safe, effective, responsive, caring and well-led service where compassion is embedded and a positive patient experience is achieved.
3. Provide professional clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and act as a professional role model.
4. A highly skilled clinical expert with specialised knowledge in caring for patients and their carers.

Key Responsibilities

• Promote and set high standards of professional nursing care and maintain the delivery of quality care within the trust policies, protocols and guidelines. Implement the trust 'values and beliefs' ensuring they are embedded into everyday practice and evaluate their impact on the patients' experience.
• Provide professional nursing leadership to staff within sphere of clinical responsibility. Lead and motivate staff by giving clear direction and setting achievable objectives through APDR process.
• Responsible for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care on a day to day basis.
• Maintain a high visible presence within the clinical area ensuring that patients, visitors, healthcare staff and the multidisciplinary team, have access to senior staff at all times. Act as an effective professional role model and expert clinician.
• With the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse contribute to the ward/department philosophy and models of care to ensure that all policies and procedures are implemented. Ensure that all staff understand the significance of this philosophy to practice, monitoring its impact on the patient experience.
• Ensure that all nursing issues relating to the implementation of patient quality and safety are addressed on the ward/department. This includes monitoring and evaluating standards of care by the clinical team and providing regular feedback to the ward team on the standards of nursing care.
• Implement evidence based practice, initiate, manage and evaluate changes that lead to improved and high standards of care and in particular any service changes following feedback from patients.
• Communicating, influencing and working with the multidisciplinary team in different ways to improve quality of care, and informed clinical decisions. Promote innovation and participate in benchmarking and quality audits to measure effectiveness of current practices.
• In collaboration with other areas and the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse, improve and maintain standards of fundamental nursing care, using tools such as the Portsmouth Bundle.
• In collaboration with members of the multidisciplinary team, ensure that the users of the service and their families have a positive experience and using feedback (Elephant Surveys, Family and Friends Test, concerns and complaints) evaluate patient processes and pathways of care are redesigned as required.
• Create a culture for learning and development that will sustain person-centred safe and effective care.
• Support junior colleagues in the provision of direct care; facilitate learning in and from practice at the same time as working alongside; or undertaking a care plan review if an when a serious incident or complaint has occurred.
• Ensure concerns raised by patients and their families are dealt with in an open, honest and transparent way, quickly and effectively, in line with trust policies, procedures and Duty of Candour legislation.
• Ensuring that accurate and timely nursing records are maintained, monitoring standards and taking corrective action as required.
• Ensure all staff in the clinical area are competent in the use of medical devices/equipment and have access to training and monitoring compliance.

Requirements

• Current RN +/- RN, registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications.
• BSc Degree in relevant field(Desirable -Masters degree and evidence of working towards)
• Significant demonstrable experience within specialty in level 3 NICU with evidence of professional development.
• Post Reg. qualifications for specialty area (QIS)
• Leadership development programme.
• Teaching qualification /experience and accredited NMC before mentorship course
• Evidence of team leadershipand change management with relevant management/leadership course.
• Managing resources and contributing to departmental budget.
• Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources.
• Clinically competent in caring for special care, high dependency and intensive care neonate in an Level 3 NICU.
• Clinical decision making skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Effective leadership and team building skills.
• Organisational skills and forward planning.
• Able to support development of others.
• Coaching and mentoring skills
• Critical appraisal skills.
• Strong customer service skills.
• IT literate.
• Understanding of the principles and application of effective budgetary management.
• Understanding of the principles and application of effective staff / HR management.
• Understanding of the theory and application of Clinical Governance.
• Demonstrable experience of effective management and supervision of staff and taking charge of ward /unit.
• Evident of completion of band 5 QIS development program or equivalent.

Benefits

• We are so grateful for the commitment and devotion of our Bank Staff, so are pleased to offer the following benefits:
• Weekly salary.
• Staffing Bank workers can contribute to their NHS pension.
• Priority of shifts over all agency workers.

Apply now for this fantastic opportunity by uploading your CV, and a member of our recruitment team will be in touch.